The opening Allegro con spirito of the E flat sonata, opus 12 no.3, is an extensive movement. It is some time before the violin frees itself from a somewhat ungrateful role, trying to compete with a singularly brilliant piano part; however, by the second subject it has liberated itself and takes flight in a series of rapid semiquaver runs. The slow movement is a superb Adagio con molt'espressione in C major, music of a profundity and veiled poetry that looks at times far into the future. The rondo finale has no easy task to follow such a movement, but it looks back to Mozart in a complimentary way and rounds offa fine work entirely appropriately.

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